Mass Struggle

Mass Struggle

A podcast on revolutionary theory for revolutionary practice.

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October 9, 2023 169 mins

[Repost from Revolutionary Left Radio] - This episode aims to serve as an introduction to the Trade Union Educational League (TUEL) which was the vehicle through which the communists in the U.S. from 1920-1935 aimed to base themselves amongst the proletariat and transform the labor movement into, as Marx said, an "organizing centre of the working class for its broad interest of complete emancipation." We focus particularl...

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Former Revolutionary Marxist Students, Audrey and Lenni, discuss their recent article on the Teamsters Mobilize Vote No campaign, the ways in which the Tentative Agreement and the Teamsters for a Democratic Union leadership betrays UPS workers and the entire working class, how opportunists misguide the workers in their struggle against their oppressors, and what the tasks of Marxist in the labor movement are today.

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April 22, 2023 79 mins

Jacki and Rajeeb of Revolutionary Marxist Students introduce us to the thinking and methods of struggle behind this revolutionary student organization. We discuss the importance of revolutionary theory for a revolutionary movement, the role of education institutions in bourgeois society, the role of the student movement in a proletarian socialist revolution, how to do united front work as maoists, why students must be organized to ...

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In a struggle against the right opportunism of AF3IRM's leadership--a US-based, women's organization that focuses particularly on the violence of the sex trade--numerous members split from the organization and now aim to start a new, revolutionary proletarian feminist organization. Gigi, Feroz, Esperanza and Jacqui join me to discuss the failures of AF3IRM's leadership and what a new proletarian feminist organization...

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February 24, 2023 65 mins

Adrian and Arty from Dare to Struggle join me to discuss the organization's recent summation of their organizing against privatization in NYC.

Be sure to read the summation, check out Dare to Struggle on instagram (@daretostrugglenyc), and link up with them in NYC here!

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February 4, 2023 29 mins

This episode is a reading and reflection on section I--"Self-Criticism"--of The Work of the April Joint Plenum of the Central Committee and Central Control Commission.

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This episode is a reading of "The Meaning of Imperialism" by Jose Maria Sison from Selected Readings from the Works of Jose Maria Sison.

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This episode is a reading of and reflection on a 10th Party Congress document (1921) of the Communist Party of Russia on party building that discusses the Bolshevik's experience pertaining to changing conditions that consequently determined the form of organization, methods of work and primacy of tasks.

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December 26, 2022 46 mins

This episode is a reading and reflection on "The Mass Line" by the Communist Party of Peru (PCP).

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Today we learn about the campaign to Defend Ka Louie!

We speak with Ka Luis Jalandoni, Chief International Representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) and Senior Advisor to the NDFP Negotiating Panel; Coni Ledesma, member of the NDFP Negotiating Panel and MAKIBAKA International Representative; Eevee, member of the Global Secretariat of the Friends of the Filipino People in Struggle (FFPS); and...

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This is a brief assessment of US society following the American Revolution of 1776, the War of 1812 and the Civil War, as well as the character of each war.

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October 20, 2022 13 mins

This episode is a brief introduction to communist organizing!

Outline:
1. Basic Principles for Organizing
2. Sectors, Territories and Contact Making
3. An Organizing Conversation
4. The Mass Campaign
5. Workshop it! 

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This episode is a reflection  on the role legal democratic organizations will play in our party building and united front work, the relationship between the legal democratic and open revolutionary mass organizations, and on right and "left" opportunism in legal democratic organizations.

1. Why must we build the party through united front work?
2. How can we just effectively wage ideological struggle against r...

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We do a little US history today with Too Black, writer, organizer and co-host of the Black Myths Pod. We discuss the history of the Deacons for Defense and Justice, then Too Black tells us about the current organizing effort concerning the Pendleton 2 who participated in the Indiana Prisoner Rebellion of 1985.

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This episode is an investigation into the question of people's war or protracted people's war in the capitalist and capitalist-imperialist countries. I argue against the universality of protracted people's war and for the strategy of people's war, or people's revolutionary civil war, for the industrial capitalist and imperialist metropoles.

"Problems of War and Strategy" - Mao, 1938
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September 13, 2022 34 mins

At the Fourth Congress of the Communist International, the Executive Committee adopted this appendix to the Theses on Comintern Tactics in December, 1922. This episode is a reading of Theses on the United Front.

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September 7, 2022 29 mins

This episode is a reflection on Urban Perspective by CPI (Maoist).

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This episode is part three to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923.  Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free.

Part Three discusses the development of the relations between the party and the masses towards the end of and after the civil war, the ideological struggles internal to the party during this period, Par...

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This episode is part one to a three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923.  Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free.

Part One discusses the class contradictions of Russia on the eve of 1917, socialism as a period of transition and continued class struggle between capitalism and communism, and the role of the Maoist part...

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This episode is part two of our three-part series on Charles Bettleheim's Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917-1923. Check out the summary of each section of this book on our Mass Struggle patreon for free.
 
Part Two discusses the development and movement of the contradictions between the party and the peasantry and the party and the proletariat through through the civil war and imperialist intervention. Ne...

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